How Do I Create an Excerpt in WordPress?

Creating an excerpt in WordPress is as easy as selecting the text you want to excerpt, copying and pasting it into the text editor of your choice, and saving the file. Once you’ve saved the file, you can upload it to your WordPress site using the Upload File button in the excerpts editor.

You’ll need to enter the full URL to your excerpt file in the Upload a File field, and then click the Upload button. WordPress will check the file against the site’s content restrictions and, if everything looks good, will upload it to your site.

Once the excerpt is uploaded, you can enter a title for it in the Title field, and then click the Edit button to get started. In the excerpt editor, you’ll first need to select the portion of the text you want to excerpt.

To do this, you can use the selection tool at the top of the window.

Once you’ve selected the text, you can copy it to the clipboard by clicking the Copy button, or you can select all of the text and press the Ctrl (Cmd) key while clicking the Copy button. You can then paste the text into the editor, or you can use the drag and drop feature to drop the text into the editor.

Once you’ve pasted the text into the editor, you’ll need to decide how you want the excerpt to look. WordPress offers a number of different formatting options, including bolding, italics, and underlining.

You can also add a title to the excerpt, and you can add a link to a full copy of the excerpt on your site.

Once you’ve finished editing the excerpt, you can click the Publish button to save the changes and upload the excerpt to your WordPress site. WordPress will also create a excerpt file name that includes the title you entered in the Title field, the date the excerpt was published, and the ID of the post for which the excerpt was created.

Conclusion:

Creating an excerpt in WordPress is easy and, once you’ve done it, you can share a portion of your content with your readers with little effort.